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Hey Griffin, I'm just about to go through your Sunday music selections...

I managed to miss only around three classes at the end of last year, so I mostly kept up. I was without a harpsichord for over two months though, when the loan instrument went back, and that was difficult.

Yes, I've bought it for, as they say, a song. Sold to me by a technically competent professional harpsichordist, so reasonably taken care of.

Indeed Wayne, when I have something that I can play competently

Guys, thanks for the trills advice.

Griffin - I have obtained a copy of Hanon, and have found some exercises in there for trills. Will just have to plug away.

Richard - I have some 4 on black and 3 on white. I'm sure 3/5 would be an option (though not 2, which is needed elsewhere). I'll definitely try the repercussion building exercise you describe.

What I need I suppose more than anything is patience. Trills were not built in a day!

Richard, I loved the Handel! It was just what I needed as I was taking a break from my piano work. I particularly like that you presented this highly skilled group of amateur musicians. Actually, I'm on my second listen of the fourth movement. A delightful way to take a break from Clair de lune! Thanks!

Great selection for Sunday postings, as usual! I'll enjoy most of them along the week. Thanks guys for taking your time.

Eglantine, loved your harpsichord! It's a beauty.

Eglantines harpsichord is brilliant and we all wish for her to play it and post up the recording dont we folks?

(its not just me is it?) anyways I found another probably little known band and what a madcap outfit this is.... you gotta check em out dudes and dudettes... they are called "messer chups"

first off "Moriarty woogie" followed by "vincent price bible"

Impressive playing from this guy.He,s probably well known to a lot of people on the forum already, he might even post here for all I know.

I'm currently working on a simplified version of this hauntingly beautiful song from "Les Mis" - a stunning vocal performance here as "Marius" sings of his fallen comrades at the barricades in the streets of Paris:

A little gem from Purcell just to say good night.

Question; who washes their teapot out?
My gran never did, just a rinse, said it spoiled the taste of the tea otherwise, sort of gets seasoned.

anyways I think this is excellent... another one from messer chups and their excellent Russian lady and betty page lookalike...


every reason to take a look and enjoy i would say, I guess even wayne would agree betty page was a cracker...? maybe.

Oh Rossy, you and these "Messer Chumps" lol

I had to Google Betty Page, remember I wasn't born until 1978 lol I will be bk later folks with my Saturday night post see you soon!

Hey everybody... just checking in. Mardi Gras is almost over... yaaaay

Eglantine, I. Want. That. Harpsichord.

Good stuff, everybody. I especially love love love the Purcell, Recaredo. And the Messer Chumps! Great find, Rossy! I like the whole surf music vibe it has...was actually thinking of posting some old surf music before I heard that. I saw a surf documentary the other day, and was inspired. And will naturally, I will have to inform BillyO of the Russian bassist.

Anyway, here's Misirlou by Dick Dale.


And here's Banzai Washout.

In honor of Wayne's Saturday night postings, I have this. I'm unsure if it'll view outside of the country, but I'll try anyway

It wont let me watch it here in the UK AimeeO Shame!

Evening Guys

Well today, in between Mendelssohn practice, I've been reading the "The piano and homosexuality" thread in PC, How Redic!

I did suggest playing spot the gay in the Eric Satie Recital, but no-one wanted to play

Anyways, here's Gimme Gimme Gimme part 2 Enjoy!

Good morning, folks.

Here is that start of our last Sunday classical selection. Carl and I have reflected long over this and have reached the conclusion that continuance is not in our own best interests, each for different reasons, but with mutual understanding.

It has been a long time since the thread enjoyed the frequent interaction of regulars and the variety of music that entailed. It has lost its lustre. Time passes and we all go our separate ways...

Here is a pretty little piece from Bartok, An Evening in the Village

Such a shame,

Heinrich Biber predates Bach and Handel by some forty years.

He was instructed by Schmelzer, whose influence is clear in Biber's compositions, but the virtuosity of the writing surpasses that of the master.

This collection of sonatas by Biber is his greatest legacy showing his heavy use of scordatura (altered tuning of the open strings to facilitate chord production) and the use multiple stopping, chord playing, on the violin.

He also makes use of swift hand movement in the higher registers of the instrument, which was not as easy in his day without the now common chin rest.

If you enjoy this, the first sonata in the 'Mysteries', I urge you to check out the whole sixteen, especially the last, in normal tuning. As a Passacaglia is two parts, melody and ostinato, this requires, much as in Bach's solo violin and 'cello sonatas, some deft technical work and virtuoso effects are present in abundance in the sixteenth.

Life moves from one pleasure to the next. Mourn not what is lost, Wayne, but rather rejoice in how much it was enjoyed and valued at the time and how much room it now leaves for new pleasures to come.

Before we hurtle willy-nilly to Minneapolis here's Pergolesi's Stabat mater.

The Stabat Mater Dolorosa is an old hymn of the the Sorrows of Mary at the foot of the cross and has been set to music by many composers.

Pergolesi is a short lived composer from the Papal States (1710-1736) who introduced Italian comic opera, opera buffa in contrast to the opera seria that Lully was making popular in France. This is his best known sacred music.



Over to you, Griffin.